Pep Guardiola believes Man Utd ‘should have won all the titles’ for a clear reason

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Pep Guardiola has claimed Manchester United should have won every Premier League title in recent years if money had been the deciding factor.

While United sit eighth in the table, Manchester City are two wins away from securing a fourth consecutive English title, and Guardiola has hit back at suggestions that their dominance is boring and dismissed accusations that his side -bought success.

Guardiola claimed it was difficult to earn as much as City as he relied on net spending statistics showing Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal to be the biggest buyers in recent years.

Over the past five seasons, according to transfermarkt, City’s net spending of £259m is only the seventh highest among English clubs, even though they had the biggest wage bill last year and started that period already owning players from the class of Kevin de Bruyne, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Ederson and Bernardo Silva.

However, while City have bought the likes of Erling Haaland, Ruben Dias and Rodri since the summer of 2019 and made Jack Grealish the first £100m signing in Premier League history, they have sold , also for profits and made fewer failed signings than some. other clubs.

Their neighbors at Old Trafford paid around £400m in transfer fees in Erik ten Hag’s two-year reign alone and have a net spend of £619m over five seasons, while Chelsea, who have committed more than £1 billion to new signings under the ownership. by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, have a net spend of £660m.

Arsenal are the third biggest, with Tottenham, Newcastle and Aston Villa next in that top, with Guardiola claiming City have not earned success.

He said: “Years ago people said it was easy for Man City. Is it boring? Is not. It is so difficult. But do you know what it was before? It was the money. Because of this, Man United should have won all the titles. All. And second, Chelsea (for) all the titles. And the third Arsenal… all the titles.

“They have spent as much money in the last five years as we have. It should be there. They are not there. Because of this, Girona shouldn’t be in the Champions League and Leicester shouldn’t have won the Premier League years ago. Is it boring now? It’s not boring. It’s so hard to be here again and we want to win it.”

Guardiola also came to the defense of Liverpool, his most persistent rivals for trophies during his time in England. Jurgen Klopp’s last title challenge ended in April, but the City boss insisted the German’s side are undefeated.

He explained: “I’ve seen Liverpool in the last few weeks. They couldn’t fight Arsenal, but you know how they lose their chance by not fighting to the end? I saw the games against (Crystal) Palace and (Manchester) United. The chances they missed were unbelievable. You can’t believe it. I asked: give me all the Liverpool chances they missed, but miss without a goalkeeper. Nothing. They miss you. For this reason, they do not fight to the end.

“Are they losers and failures? Not. They are incredible, the same team that has been fighting with us for many years. Tell me how many attacking players Liverpool have and they didn’t score a goal and that’s why they didn’t win. It may happen. The important thing is that Liverpool are winners because they fought for four titles while there.”